While exporting a report as PDF the checkbox is not seen anymore

Problem Statement: 

A report that contains a checkbox and the checkbox is displayed using Unicode in the text field. While exporting the report as Excel, the checkbox is displaying as expected while trying to export the report as PDF the checkbox is not displaying. 

Resolution:

The reason that the checkbox does not get exported in PDF is that the font being used does not have a checkbox symbol. As a workaround for this, you can use for example, DejaVu Sans which includes a built-in font extension to display the checkbox character. 

However, if you want to use the same font then the below criteria must be met: 

1. The font has glyphs for U+2610 and U+2611
2. The font extension uses Identity-H and PDF encoding and PDF embedding is enabled